The Week in Pictures
Iraqi boys trail balloons as they ride horses during celebrations for Eid al-Adha in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad. Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, is celebrated by all Muslim sects and commemorates the prophet Abraham’s faith and willingness to sacrifice his son for God. (Alaa al-Marjani / Associated Press)
Germany’s Susanne Riesch skis through her second run at the women’s World Cup slalom ski race on Sunday. She finished in fourthy place. (Alessandro Trovati / Associated Press)
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A Palestinian youth sits by a camel as people visit a funfair during Eid al-Adha celebrations in Gaza City. Muslims worldwide celebrated Eid al-Adha or the Feast of the Sacrifice, marking the end of
FC Porto’s Radamel Falcao heads the ball against Rio Ave in a soccer match at Dragao Stadium in Porto on Sunday. Porto went on to win the match, 2-1. (Paulo Duarte / Associated Press)
Workers examine one of the derailed cars in Uglovka, in the Novgorod region. Officials said a makeshift bomb equivalent to 15 pounds of TNT detonated under the Nevsky Express, which was carrying more than 650 passengers from Moscow. It was headed to St. Petersburg. Full story (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty Images)
Candles surround a monument to victims of the 1932-33 Great Famine in
Juan Martin del Potro samples a tennis ball during his match against Robin Soderling at the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Saturday. After losing the first set, del Potro rallied to beat Soderling, 6-7, 6-3, 7-6. (Alastair Grant / Associated Press)
Bangladeshi villagers gather near a capsized ferry in the village of Bhola about 64 miles south of the capital, Dhaka. At least 37 died. Many passengers were traveling to celebrate Eid al-Adha. (AFP/Getty Images)
North Carolina State defensive back Owen Spencer breaks up a pass intended for North Carolina’s Charles Brown during the second half of a game between the Wolfpack and the Tarheels on Saturday. North Carolina State held off North Carolina for the win, 28-27. (Gerry Broome / Associated Press)
A pair of Senegalese boys try unsuccessfully to lead a ram into the ocean for washing, in preparation for the Eid al-Adha holiday, in the Yoff neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal. The holiday is known locally as Tabaski. (Rebecca Blackwell / AP Photo)
Lidia Valentin of Spain attempts a lift in the 75 kg category event at the World Weightlifting Championships in South Korea. (Jung Yeon-Je / AFP/Getty Images)
Cuban soldiers chant revolutionary slogans during a march commemorating the 138th anniversary of the execution of eight medical students by the Spanish colonial government in Havana during Cuba’s war for independence. Thousands marched to mark the event. (Javier Galeano / AP Photo)
Birds scatter as space shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center. The crew completed an 11-day mission to the International Space Station. Five shuttle flights remain before the fleet is retired. (Bruce Weaver / Associated Press)
Finland’s Harri Olli jumps during the World Cup qualification round for ski jumping in Ruka-Kuusamo, Finland, on Friday. (MORIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Muslim women gather to pray on the first day of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha in Taguig, a suburb of Manila. Muslims across the world celebrated Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the
Santas were out in force for the Volunteers of America’s 107th annual Parade of Sidewalk Santas in
Thomas Rupprath sets a new European record for the 50-meter backstroke with a time of 22.91 seconds. (Martin Meissner / Associated Press)
A man prays in the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Muslims across the world celebrate the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Bulent Kilic / AFP/Getty Images)
As dawn approaches, a shopper walks beneath a canopy of holiday lights at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Policemen ferry villagers to safety on a rubber boat as flood waters submerged large areas of Pandeglang and other villages in Banten province at the western end of Indonesia’s Java island. Heavy rains caused two rivers to overflow leaving hundreds of residents stranded on rooftops as the waters destroyed their farms. (Kris Aria / AFP /Getty Image)
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In New Delhi, people light candles in memory of the 166 people killed a year ago in a terrorist attack on the western city of
Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten gives his one-year-old son, Cooper, a kiss during warmups before Dallas’ game against the Oakland Raiders on Thanksgiving. The Cowboys beat the Raiders, 24-7. (Erich Schlegel / Associated Press)
Meril Gonzalez enjoys a free Thanksgiving meal with daughter Keli, 3, at the Fred Jordan Mission in downtown L.A., where food was provided for more than 2,000 people. Full story (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Chip Margelli and wife Janet pull the turkey out of the pot for Thanksgiving dinner at Bolsa Chica State Beach. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
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Twenty- to 25-foot waves break off of Ocean Beach, providing a powerful backdrop to the Sunset district of San Francisco. (George Nikitin / Associated Press)
Andy Murray frustratingly gestures during his match at the ATP World Tour Finals against Fernando Verdasco in London. Although Murray defeated Verdasco, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), he was eliminated when Juan Martin Del Potro defeated Roger Federer, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3. (Carl De Souza / AFP/Getty Images)
The Smurf float is guided across Central Park South during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
For the first time in its more than 80-year history, the parade route is bypassing Broadway, which cuts a diagonal slice through Manhattan, as it makes its way south from the Upper West Side to the finish at Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square. (Frank Franklin II / Associated Press)
A U.S. soldier receives food during a Thanksgiving Day lunch at the U.S. base of Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Musadeq Sadeq / Associated Press)
Muslims in Saudi Arabia leave Mt. Arafat for Muzdalifa for the next step in the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. (Hassan Ammar / Associated Press)
Germany’s Vanessa Low competes in the women’s long jump during International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation World Games 2009 in Bangalore, India.
More than 800 physically disabled athletes from 43 countries are participating in the weeklong event, organizers said. (Aijaz Rahi / Associated Press)
A passerby photographs a boutique’s window display in a Tokyo shopping district. (Shizuo Kambayashi / Associated Press)
The Christmas market in Frankfurt, Germany, is seen through a window after the traditional display opened for the season. (Michael Probst / Associated Press)
A maintenance crew works Wednesday to clean up the Bruin mascot at UCLA after it was vandalized overnight with paint in the cardinal and gold colors of USC. The crosstown rivals face each other on the gridiron Saturday. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Thanksgiving travelers wait in line at Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A traveler pulls her luggage at John Wayne Airport on the day before the four-day Thanksgiving weekend. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
A jetliner lands at Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of Thanksgiving. (David McNew / Getty Images)
A woman in Bogota, Colombia, participates in a march associated with the U.N.-declared International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. (Fernando Vergara / Associated Press)
French yachtsmen Michel Desjoyeaux and Jeremie Beyou of the Foncia arrive in fourth place Wednesday in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, endpoint in the Transat Jacques Vabre race for monohull and multihull sailing craft. The race began in Le Havre, France. (Marcel Mochet / AFP / Getty Images)
An Orange County Fire Authority helicopter flies over a brush fire Wednesday morning east of the 241 toll road. The blaze was 90% contained in the evening, with full containment expected Thursday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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Students take part in a protest organized by the “Stop the War Coalition,” demanding that British troops be withdrawn from
Women who were demonstrating to commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women clash with the riot police Wednesday. (Burhan Ozbilici / Associated Press)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals activists sit inside a cage dressed as monkeys during a protest Wednesday. PETA said that it compares the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks to the daily abuse that animals face at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences central animal house. (Anindito Mukherjee / EPA)
A man launches a paint pot onto a fire while demonstrating at the entrance of the cruise ship terminal in Marseille. Demonstrators were demanding a meeting with local authorities to discuss the fate of their company. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP / Getty Images)
A couple of tourists pass an inscription made with pebbles on the beach Wednesday. (Lionel Cironneau / Associated Press)
The scene at a Christmas market in Berlin on Wednesday. (Gero Breloer / Associated Press)
A man takes items out of Santa’s gift bag outside a hotel in the Chinese capital. (Elizabeth Dalziel / Associated Press)
A victim’s hand protrudes from some foliage at a police line Tuesday at the scene of a massacre in which gunmen killed at least 46 people in one of the country’s worst election massacres. Philippine President
Journalists light candles during a rally in this suburb of
A baboon named Fred sits inside a car as he eats a piece of fruit on the outskirts of Cape Town,
Raindrops painted onto a house are admired by a passer-by with umbrella on a rainy Tuesday. (Uli Deck / EPA)
A Bedouin drinks tea by the side of a road in the south of Jordan on Tuesday as a man rides past on his horse. (Mohammad Abu Ghosh / Associated Press)
A Palestinian worker inspects a rubble of a destroyed metal workshop after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike early Tuesday morning in the al Zaitun area in the east of
Butchers with knives participate in religious rituals before slaughtering buffaloes during a mass sacrifice ceremony at Gadhimai temple about 43 miles south of Katmandu,
Russian workers climb scaffolding near a giant hammer and sickle under plastic wrap in Moscow on Tuesday, part of the famous Soviet sculpture “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” by Vera Mukhina. The giant stainless steel sculpture, created for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris, is under renovation. The refurbished statue is expected to be unveiled in early December. (Andrei Smirnov AFP / Getty Images)
A relative mourns one of the 104 victims of this weekend’s gas explosion in a coal mine in Hegang, northern China. A government official said the mine had put too many workers underground to increase productivity. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)
Coal miners work on search-and-rescue efforts at the site of a gas explosion in Hegang, northern China. At least 104 were killed. (Andy Wong / Associated Press)
Women sell their harvest in a floating market on the Martapura river in Lok Baintan, south Kalimantan, Indonesia. (Binsar Bakkara / Associated Press)
Christmas markets in Berlin opened Monday, including the Charlottenburg market with its illuminated roofs. (Soeren Stache / EPA)
Rafael Nadal swats a return shot back to Sweden’s Robin Soderling during their ATP World Tour Finals match in London. Soderling would go on to defeat Nadal in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / Associated Press)
An Afghan woman tries to keep warm while standing in a food distribution line for a charity aimed at widows. (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)
A girl photographs a bighorn sheep on the road between Banff and Lake Louise, Canada. (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)
First-year students from St. Andrews University take part in a tradition of covering themselves with shaving foam to honor the “academic family.” Held every November, Raisin Monday originated when first-year students gave gifts of raisins to their academic “parents” in gratitude for their guidance; students who did not offer raisins would get splashed with water. Nowadays, shaving foam has replaced water, and students look forward to spraying each other with foam. (Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty Images)
A criminalist prepares the remains of people for the burial. The remains of about 600 people, believed to have died around 1945 or 1946, were found during excavations near Lviv; they likely were killed by soldiers of Joseph Stalin’s secret police or died of starvation trying to escape from the western regions of the nation. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP / Getty Images)
Huge waves driven by high winds lash the coastline and lighthouse at Porthcawl, in south Wales. (Stephen Chatterley / EPA)
Emergency workers respond to the crash of a military C-130 transport plane, which went down soon after takeoff from Pisa airport. All five people on the plane were killed. (Pierpaolo Pernici / EPA)
A police forensics team searches in front of the Northern Ireland Policing Board headquarters in Belfast, where suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents left a 400-pound car bomb that failed to detonate. (Peter Muhly / AFP / Getty Images)
A woman looks through a third-floor window at the still-under-construction Pompidou Center modern art gallery, which is scheduled to open in May. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP / Getty Images)
Mlelani, left, lets her newborn white rhinoceros calf scratch on her horn at Busch Gardens. The calf was born on Nov. 11 and has yet to be given a name. (Chris O’Meara / Associated Press)
Churchgoers in the village of Ikalto light candles marking the Day of St. George. (Zurab Kurtsikdze / EPA)
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Soccer fan Phil Andruss painted his face to resemble a socer ball for the MLS Cup championship at the Qwest Field in Seattle. The Lynwood, Wash. native said he spent two hours getting his hair and face paint done. The Los Angeles Galaxy lost the MLS Cup to Real Salt Lake in penalty kicks. (Elaine Thompon / Associated Press)
A woman looks at the River Nith that burst its banks in Dumfries, southwest Scotland after heavy rainstorms. Britain’s flood-ravage northwest braced for more devastation as forecasters warned of more rain following unprecedented deluges. (Andy Buchanan / AFP / Getty Images)
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger loses control of the ball as Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Wallace Gilberry tackles him. The Chiefs upset the Steelers in overtime, 27-24, on Sunday. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)